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No minimum wage **** for Microsoft. In lieu of salary, all those fortunate Microsoft Home beta testers/guinea pigs are being granted the privilege of paying MS $20 more for a copy of Windows 10 Home [see Beta-News].

I just did the math – assuming Windows 10 is on 700 million devices (rounding the newest numbers I can recall hearing)… Microsoft’s number of “0.01%” means 70,000 computers had their files deleted… I’m guessing that’s “0.01%” of Windows 10 installations, not “0.01%” of 1809 upgrades. The number of 1809 updated machines that had their files deleted is probably in whole digits (i.e. 7% of all machines that updated to 1809…)

Just one sentence earlier they said they stopped the rollout in 2 days, which according to Woody’s ComputerWorld article is also a lie…

the rollout wasn’t officially halted until Friday night, more than three days after the Tuesday launch

I think with Microsoft’s recent history of outright lies it would be foolish to believe ANYTHING coming out of Redmond. Look at the Surface alone – how many times has MS ruined significant numbers of Surfaces and denied it for weeks or months before admitting their bad code was the problem?

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